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Violin Concerto Nº 1: Generation : for violin and symphonic band / Yip Ho Kwen Austin

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: vn-solo picc 2fl ob 4cl cl-b 2sax-a sax-ten sax-bar 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b 2euph 2tb timp 4perc db

Commentary : for orchestra / Misja Mengelberg

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2121 sax-s 1111 timp perc xyl mar cel hp man acc cemb pf mouth-org str

Trois études symphoniques : op. 66 / Anthon van der Horst

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3343 4332 timp perc 2hp str

Heartland : for orchestra / Gerda Geertens

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3fl 3ob 2cl cl(cl-b) 3fg 4h 4trp 2trb trb-b tb 6perc str

compositie

Metamorphosis : for orchestra / Yip Ho Kwen Austin

Overige auteurs:
Yip, Austin (Componist)
Toelichting:
Artists often like to develop their works around the concept of “metamorphosis”, but the understanding of “metamorphosis” varies among people. With Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”, people often regard the title as the “change of form”, rather than an “improved change”—because the protagonist wakes up one day and realises himself being transformed into a giant insect. Such transformation differs from people’s normal understanding of the term “metamorphosis”, which is often the process to transform something from an immature state to a relatively more mature state. However, Kafka’s protagonist transforms from the family’s support into a gigantic burden in just one night. In the reader’s eyes, it seems as if the title “Metamorphosis” refers more to the transformation of the protagonist’s family, which turns well after the protagonist’s death, rather than the protagonist himself.
This work, entitled “Metamorphosis”, is to be paired up with its Chinese name, “Po Kan”, which literally means “to break through a cocoon”. It depicts the moment of how a troublesome matter resolves, and the short instance right after the process. Similar to how a worm transforms into a cocoon, and then to a butterfly, after the process of metamorphosis, the short instance of beauty gradually changes, and eventually the butterfly faces death. In Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”, the protagonist’s family seems to have a bright life after the protagonist dies, but actually no one knows what happens to them next. Nonetheless, everyone enjoys the moment of the transformation.
Austin Yip